19 February 2023

To:         Continuous Delivery Director Customers

From:     The Broadcom Continuous Delivery Director Product Team

Subject:  General Availability Announcement for Continuous Delivery Director 8.5

On behalf of Broadcom, we appreciate your business and the opportunity to provide you with high-quality, innovative software and services.  As part of our ongoing commitment to customer success, we regularly release updated versions of our products. Today, we are pleased to announce that Continuous Delivery Director 8.5 is now available. 

New features for Continuous Delivery Director 8.5 include: 

• Enhancements to the Release Pipeline
• Enable / Disable Phase
• Mandatory Task
• Release DSL Enhancements
• Modular Release Templates
• Export Phases and Tasks
• SEcOps Dashboard and Reports
• Security Summary Report - Show by Project
• Security Report - Search by Reference ID (CVE)
• UI and UX Improvements
• New Functionality - Tagging 
• Endpoints Management Improvements
• Switch Project Enhancements -
• Auditing improvement - log modifications to input fields
• Build Notification Visibility and Auditing
• Manage Test Sources from the Release Page
• A new permission "Can delete design release"
• Adaptive Testing Results by Framework Improvements
• Enhancements to the Application Editor
• Allow Multi-lines in the Secret Password field
• Approve and Start ASAP a stage in the release track
• Disable Email Notifications for Selective Events
• Enhancments to the Grafana plugin
• Support Multi-Value Variable
• Grafana - Add Query Parameters using Tags
• New Metrics: Active Users, Automated Tasks, Security Items 

We have included a Product Brief that details the features and highlights of this release.  We also encourage you to visit the Continuous Delivery Director product information page on the Broadcom Support Online website at https://support.broadcom.com/.

You can download your copy of Continuous Delivery Director 8.5 from Broadcom Support Online https://support.broadcom.com/. If you have any questions or require assistance please contact Broadcom Customer Care online at https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact where you can submit an online request using the Customer Care web form: https://ca-broadcom.wolkenservicedesk.com/web-form?_ga=2.205828371.1432263889.1590607313-713014253.1588711301 .  You can also call Broadcom Customer Care at +1-800-225-5224 in North America or see https://www.broadcom.com/support/software/contact for the local number in your country. 

Should you need any assistance, our Broadcom Services experts can help.  For more information on Broadcom Services and how you can leverage our experience, please visit https://www.broadcom.com/support/ca/services-support/ca-services.

Your success is very important to us, and we look forward to continuing our successful partnership with you.

To review Broadcom Support lifecycle policies, please review the Broadcom Support Policy and Terms located at: https://support.broadcom.com/.  

Thank you again for your business.